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HUMULA PUBLIC
SCHOOL
Term
4, W
eek 5
11th
Nov
ember
2019
Phone: (02) 69289254
Email: [email protected]
Website: humula-p.schools.nsw.gov.au (02) 69289254
Facebook: www.facebook.com/HumulaPS
Dear Parents and Community Members
What’s on at HPS…
Tuesday 12th November Morning Tea with the Chaplain– 11:30am
Instructional Leader Visit
Wednesday 13th November Hot Lunch– Cancelled
Directors Visit
Thursday 14th November Student Banking
Community Storytime– 9-10am
Directors Meeting– Lynne
Riverina PSSA Executive Meeting-Lynne
Friday 15th November Riverina PSSA AGM– Lynne
Monday 18th November Little Kinder
SCOUT Training– Janelle
Tuesday 19th November Morning Tea with the Chaplain– 11:30am
Instructional Leader Visit
Wednesday 20th November Hot Lunch
Mobile Library
ALPSS Principal Meeting– Lynne
Thursday 21st November P&C Meeting– 9am
Student Banking
Community Storytime– 9am
CPR/Anaphylaxis Training at GSPS
Monday-Friday 25th-29th November Senior Excursion to Sydney
Monday 25th November Little Kinder
Tuesday 26th November Morning Tea with the Chaplain
OUR VISION
Humula Public School aims to provide a safe and varied learning environment that creates independent, confident and resilient individuals working towards academic success.
CONGRATULATIONS
It is my pleasure to welcome Ms Janelle O’Brien to the
permanent staff at Humula Public School. Janelle was
successful with her application and interview and will
start her permanent position at school from the
beginning of week 6.
MELBOURNE CUP IN HUMULA
Humula PS combined our new STEMShare learning with the Melbourne Cup celebrations.
We held a fashions on the field event, in front of the green screen. We videoed our own
Humula PS Cup race, where some children provided the commentary over the top of the
filming. We made our own fascinators and ties for the event that ‘stops the nation’.
CWA COUNTRY OF STUDY POSTERS
Earlier this year we completed the CWA
Country of Study posters. This year the
country of study was Papua New Guinea. Our
posters were sent off to the Riverina
judging and we were very pleased with the
results. Nathan was placed first in the
Stage 2 area, Makayla was placed 2nd and Sid
placed 3rd, in Stage 3 Jayden was placed 3rd.
This was a huge effort considering the
judging was from all schools across the
Riverina.
SCARECROW COLOURING IN
COMPETITION
At the end of term three we contributed
to the Tumbarumba competition for the
Spring Flower Festival. We coloured in
scarecrows and these were delivered to
Tumbarumba. Once again we were
successful competitors with the
following results:
2nd 3-5 years – Annabeth Sumpter
3rd 6-9 years – Evan Dent
3rd 10-12 years – Makayla Ellis
FRESH FOR KIDS
As reported in our last newsletter, Humula PS was lucky
enough to win some prizes in the Fresh Food for Kids
campaign. Jayden and Ms O’Brien received our Tupperware
gift this morning, which we will put to good use in our kitchen.
MUSIC COUNT US IN
Last Thursday was the annual Music Count Us In sing along for
2019. Students from all around Australia participated in singing
“We Are”, the song for this year. We watched the live stream
which was streamed from the Gold Coast. We were ready to sing
our hearts out and join with thousands of other students, coming
together as one, in song.
RIVERINA ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCTION CENTRE VISIT
Last Friday Dani from REEC visited the school with another great program for the
children to participate in. This term’s focus was on ‘animation’ using ‘claymation’. The
children were set a task using an Ipad and basic resources to make a film clip using
animation. After forming small groups they set about their learning with vengeance. The
film clips that they produced were amazing, being produced in about 30 minutes. Then
came the real challenge! Using clay to build their set they were given part text from ‘The
Lorax’ by Dr Seuss. The challenge was to make an animation representing their part of the
text. This took more time than expected as we had to refocus our skills, deleting
backgrounds and thinking outside the box, to create scenes from the text. This will be an
ongoing project that we will try to accomplish before Dani ’s next visit later in the term.
BUSH FIRE DRILL
Last week Mr Hawkins showed everyone
through how to use the generator in case of
an emergency. Lots of the primary class had
the opportunity to try to start the
generator. The generator was hooked up to
the pump and the sprinkler system was
turned on. Everything works and we are now
more prepared for survival if a bush fire
should be anywhere near our school.
REMEMBRANCE DAY On Monday we had Sergeant Marc Neiberding visit us once again to share his knowledge on
‘Remembrance Day’. Sergeant Neiberding visited Humula for the 2019 ANZAC Day service and was keen to revisit the school for Remembrance Day. Sergeant Neiberding had
a powerpoint presentation to share with the children on his experiences of war. He accompanied us to the cenotaph where we laid a wreath in honour of the war heroes. We
observed a minutes silence, remembering those brave men and women who gave their lives so that we could live in peace.
AFRICAN DRUMMING
Today we revisited our learning on African Drumming on our very own
djembes. Once we recalled the rhythms learnt earlier in the year, we
moved forward learning some
different rhythms. The drums
sound great and we can’t wait to
share our rhythms with others.
MORNING TEA WITH THE CHAPLAIN
‘Morning Tea with the Chaplain’ will resume this week. This event takes place each Tuesday at 11.30am. It has been introduced to provide an opportunity for
community members to pop in, have a cuppa and a chat. If you would like to join the chaplain I’m sure she would love to meet you.
‘Storytime with the Chaplain’ will resume this week on Thursday morning, beginning at 9.00am. All toddlers are welcome to join the chaplain and the K-2 class for storytime. Mums can relax with a cuppa, listen to the story and assist with the art activity if they choose to. This is an opportunity for toddlers to visit the school in a nonthreatening environment and join with us in our in our love of books.
POLICY STATEMENT
Humula Public School Newsletter seeks to serve the interests of Humula and the surrounding community by publishing the communities’ news and views, while supporting local sport-ing, educational, recreational and charitable groups through publication of information relevant to their organisation.
Excepting grammar and minor editing adjustments, articles in this newsletter are published as they were submitted. Sometimes articles will be condensed due to space constraints. The views and opinions expressed in this newsletter are not necessarily the views of the Principal or Staff of Humula Public School.
Contributions for the Newsletter are welcome from all community organisations. We endeavour to put out a Newsletter each fortnight so please send or email items to the school by Monday of the Newsletter week and your item will be included. Advertisements for items for sale etc. are welcome for a donation.
C o m m u n i t y S t o r y t i m e
Bring yourself and your toddler along for
storytime with our school Chaplain.
Venue: Humula PS
When: Every Thursday
Time: 9:00am—10:00am
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WANTED We are after donations of clean old towels, hand towels and face washers for a craft project that we will be taking part in next week. If anyone has any old towels etc please drop them off to school. Each child
will require at least one item but it would be good if we had two each.
FOR SALE We still have
piano stools that we are trying to rehome. If you
are interested in a piano stool please see
Janelle and make her an offer.
The Mobile Library visits Humula on alternate
Wednesdays.
Next visit:
20th Novem-ber